The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience edited by Franklin Odo + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Gathering History for the Future: A Profile of Curator & Historian Franklin Odo
For decades, Franklin Odo has been a professional groundbreaker. He was the first from his Hawai’i high school to get to Princeton...
Building Character: Susan Choi re-emerges with her second novel, American Woman
In many ways, Susan Choi’s life has been a series of unpremeditated choices. “I didn’t set out to bring my life into line with...
The book, apparently "based 80-90 percent on real stories," is admittedly over-the-top in a Miss Saigon sort of way. But the Donna/Mai story is everything Hollywood is searching for – so no...
Koul captures the lives of four generations of women in her native Kashmir, a tiny country caught between India and Pakistan since the Partition of 1947, the year of her birth. She weaves a...
Make sure you get this one into your library – it's the very first collection of historical writings by and about APA women. It's about rethinking our collective past as...
The re-release of the 10-million copy-strong bestselling epic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, opens with a brand-new introduction by the author. First published in 1991, Chang chronicles the lives of her concubine...
"It is not the accuracy of the story that concerns us," the author writes in the title's opening poem. "But who gets to tell it." Dhompa captures her fractured self...
Drawing upon the experiences of over 60 multiracial families – including her own, made up of a Japanese American husband and two hapa children – Nakazawa...
Don’t know how this one fell through the cracks as I devoured it months ago and it was one of my favorites this whole year –...
A fabulous collection of prose and poetry from a new generation of Korean American authors. Grouped into three sets of pairings – arrival/return, dwelling/crossing, descent/flight, all with multiple layers of meaning –...
The captivating inspiration for the award-winning film of the same title about 8-year-old Kahu, who must convince her great-grandfather that females can carry on ancient Maori traditions just as well – if not better!...
A wacky first novel about Korean American Ginger Lee, an English PhD dropout working in the fashion industry and trying to avoid her well-intentioned mother’s attempts to marry her off before she...
An anthology that takes a combined look at two rapidly growing fields of study – globalization of sexual cultures together with the study of “new media.” At its core is the internet, which has...
A poetic first novel with some amazing images (“ … try to remember the wisdoms you unpacked that life scattered around your living room,” the author’s prologue begins) by an...
A young Korean girl experiences her first day of school where the children do not look like her or speak her language. But with a kind...
Debut collection of breathtaking, breathless stories by a half-Japanese, half-Irish American writer who seems to be searching for meaning in the spaces between war and peace, between being Japanese and becoming American,...
An especially timely, highly entertaining look – “I-ran is a sentence, Iran is a country” – at life in Southern California as an Iranian immigrant. Dumas mixes humorous misadventures with chilling memories...
Already a bestseller in France, where it was first published, Satrapi’s achievement is capturing her childhood in spare comic book images that speak utter volumes. Satrapi, whose great grandfather was a Persian emperor, recalls her life...
A collection of 13 essays that examine the Asian Pacific American role in the latest frontier – cyberspace – from “Oriental” influences (with all the cringe-inducing-‘isms’ that word implies) to machine-like Asian laborers to the yellowfacing...
A history of a changing Filipino population in and around Seattle, bookended by both World Wars.
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